Law enforcement actions and a relative dearth of zero-day bugs appear to have contributed to a sharp decline in exploit kit activity in recent months. It's too soon, however, to say whether the ...

A new kit for web-based attacks calling itself Lord EK has been spotted at the beginning of the month as part of a malvertising chain that uses the PopCash ad network. The exploit kit (EK) leverages a ...

The Fallout Exploit has been distributing the GandCrab Ransomware for the past few weeks, but has now switched its payload to the Kraken Cryptor Ransomware. Kraken Cryptor is a Ransomware as a Service ...

Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months. Over the past six months, the roar of exploit kits has quieted to a whimper. But that doesn’t mean exploit kit threats are ...

A new report out by Sophos shows that in a post-Blackhole exploit kit world, Angler is gaining ground as a favorite attack tool among cybercriminals. "Since the demise of the Blackhole exploit kit in ...

Exploit kits of cybercrime tools fell into a big slump in the first half of this year after Russian authorities nabbed the alleged creator of the popular Blackhole kit, but users aren’t necessarily ...

For a long time, exploit kits were the most prolific malware distribution vehicle available to attackers. Where did they go and what’s replaced them? The bloom is off exploit kits. Once a mainstay for ...

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Exploit kits comprised of ...

The Cool exploit kit is pricier and packs more zero-day and attack functions than the infamous BlackHole kit, researchers say. It was thought to be launched in October by the BlackHole developers led ...

Servers used to show adverts on a popular YouTube to MP3 conversion website have been compromised in order to spread the GreenFlash exploit kit and Seon ransomware ...

Hackers backed by North Korea’s government exploited a critical Chrome zero-day in an attempt to infect the computers of hundreds of people working in a wide range of industries, including the news ...